Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 6th, 2012

Project News

We’re getting slightly more serious about shipping the SDK’s loader and core libraries in Firefox; see this feature page for some initial thoughts, and subscribe to the related meta-bug if you want to track progress.

Irakli is getting fairly serious about improving module sharing for the SDK. He wrote up this proposal on the subject and started this thread on the Jetpack mailing list. If you’re at all interested in writing and/or using re-usable modules in the SDK, head over to that thread to discuss!

Quick Stats

Note: the stats above are based on the queries I linked to for each item. If you have suggestions on how these queries might be made more accurate,please comment below. Stats generated at 2012-03-06 13:28:34 PST

Meeting Brief

Builder: minor fixes this week, planning on adding initial support for editing package.json values next week.

SDK: A late-breaking Linux issue delayed a possible 1.6 beta release.

Roundtable: SDK-based add-on Collusion got major news this week; need to message out on SDK compatibility with ESR releases.

Caspy7: there will be zero effect if you don’t have any add-ons installed, because the SDK code won’t be loaded. Otherwise, the effect should be no more negative than installing an SDK-based add-on currently is.

We are also working in various ways to eliminate the various ‘zombie compartment’ memory issues in the SDK and have recently shipped a number of fixes. More are in the pipeline. I expect any move of the SDK into Firefox will require even more testing in this area.